uvccapture command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

uvccapture: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: uvccapture: command not found

Solutions to uvccapture: command not found

How To Fix uvccapture: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu uvccapture is provided by uvccapture package.

uvccapture is:

The purpose of this software is to capture an image from a USB webcam at a specified interval, and save it to a JPEG file, no other formats are supported.

Right now this software is really a hack, since still image support is not yet available in the UVC driver. The program continually polls the UVC driver in MJPEG mode, and at a specified interval writes a JPEG header and a single frame to file, creating a JPEG image.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install uvccapture

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install uvccapture.

sudo apt -y install uvccapture

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install uvccapture

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix uvccapture command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.